Who Uses Axure RP?
Product managers, business analysts, and user experience professionals who want to plan software projects, prototype solutions, and hand off specifications to developers - all without code.
What Is Axure RP?
All-in-one software design tool for creating prototypes, specifications, and diagrams. Download the free 30-day, fully-functional trial for MacOSX and PC. Free 30-day trial. Starting at $29/month. Prototype without coding.
Axure RP Details
Axure Software
http://www.axure.com
Founded 2002
Axure RP pricing overview
Axure RP does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Axure RP paid version starts at USD 25.00/month.
Starting Price
USD 25.00/month
Pricing Details
It is also available at $42/mo, with additional features if billed annually
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes
Axure RP deployment and support
Support
- Business Hours
- Online
Deployment
- Installed - Mac
- Cloud, SaaS, Web
- Installed - Windows
Training
- Webinars
- Documentation
Axure RP Features
Prototyping Tools
- Animation
- Collaboration
- Drag & Drop
- Software Prototyping
- Templates
- UI Prototyping
- UX Prototyping
- Usability Testing
- Version Control
Axure RP Alternatives
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Axure RP Reviews
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Inguna G.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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- Reviewed on 14/07/2020
"Axure RP 8 - still going strong"
Comments: I was trained on Sketch at the beginning of my career, and when I transitioned jobs, I argued for Sketch, since I wasn't familiar with Axure. Now that I have been using Axure for 2+ years, I don't think I'll ever go back to Sketch. Axure saves me time while allowing me to communicate design concepts and information architecture.
Pros: One of the best things about Axure is that you can write text within elements. In comparison, in Sketch, you need to add an additional text element. For low-mid fidelity wireframes, Axure is way more efficient than Sketch. The second best thing is how well balanced the features are- everything is there in one place. You got your creation covered (complex interactions included), you got the generation of a share link without needing to export the screens to another app, you can also collect feedback via the discussion panel. Widgets are customizable, there's plenty of user help available on the web regarding how to do various things... Axure is great for rapid prototyping.
Cons:
Collaboration features are mostly non-existent, but that can be solved by storing the .rp file in a cloud, such as Google Drive Stream.
I wish the widget names would save when pressing 'enter' on the keyboard instead of clicking out of the field, but that is a minor issue.
In Sketch, I do still prefer the way they use symbols, in Axure the masters vs panels seem to be a bit convoluted.
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- Reviewed on 14/07/2020
Justin W.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support3 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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- Reviewed on 19/07/2019
"The Best Software for UX Work"
Comments: Axure allows us to quickly and easily put together high fidelity prototypes to share within internal and external stakeholders. The functionality is powerful enough that our prototypes often get mistaken for full working builds of software.
Pros:
- Extremely powerful prototyping toolset
- All the "fit and finish" features you need from Illustrator or Sketch
Cons:
- Team and cloud functionality needs more features
- Documentation and customer support isn't always helpful
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- Reviewed on 19/07/2019
Christian K.
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use3 /5
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Features & Functionality2 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money2 /5
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- Reviewed on 12/12/2018
"I wouldn't buy it again"
Comments: I used Axure several times, once for a smartwatch-project, the other times for smartphone app-projects. Then I switched to InVision. Why? Because it was painful to handle Axure. I don't like it and it feels like the developers didn't like what they do. And here's the problem. I want to love creating prototypes and I want to love the prototypes. But I can't love it all using Axure.
Pros: You can create good prototypes for many different devices with Axure and it will do as it should with routing, sound and functions. Through some lines of code it will offer you more if you like and if you find it.
Cons: The user interface is not the strength of Axure and the prototypes you get don't look good. Yes, it's a prototype, but a good look - somehow - or a good feeling would support to carry over what you want to create. Instead you get something that looks like it stands on legs made of wooden sticks. Crafting the prototypes isn't feeling fine and you can waste a lot of time because it doesn't feel natural.
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- Reviewed on 12/12/2018
Javier A.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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- Reviewed on 10/04/2020
"Great tool loosing its market"
Comments: Honestly, it is a great tool of its purpose.
Pros: It is by far the best tool to create hi-fi interactive prototypes. No other tool comes close to its features to create interactive behaviors. These prototypes are so good they can be used for intensive user testing, as users are not able to tell them apart from real apps or websites. I can mock with Axure in a couple of weeks what would take a dev team months to code and deploy. And that can save huge amounts of development costs.
Cons: Learning to use Axure is complicated. Mostly because of the ton of options, and partly because it is difficult to discover how the internal mechanics operate. But the biggest con is that when I look into the UX design job market, practically there are no positions requesting knowledge of Axure. Everything is Sketch or Figma, that while great to create UI mockups are no rivals of Axure when creating interactive prototypes. However Axure has lost totally its market appeal. Probably Axure should have bought Sketch or Figma when it realized it was going to be overwhelm by these tools in the UI authoring arena. Also unlike Sketch, Axure does not have a 3rd party plugin market. And this closedness has reduced further more its utility.
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- Reviewed on 10/04/2020
Ashish V.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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- Reviewed on 23/04/2019
"One of the strongest tool for dynamic prototyping"
Comments: One tool for all your prototyping need, be it animation or a simple drop down.
Pros: These days you have dozens of tools available for prototyping but none of them are as strong as Axure, the usp here is dynamism. Whilst most of the prototyping tool lets you work with static screen, Axure allow you to make it dynamic without writing a single line of code. You can build a complete design system in Axure which is a one-time investment but goes a long way in saving time.
Cons: No mobile support yet, considering the complexity and logic it lets you handle not sure how possible is the mobile version.
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- Reviewed on 23/04/2019
